The important bit is that the bus fares are completely irrelevant now. Most of my life I've thought that malaise amongst the oppressed was the stable state. Bu

The important bit is that the bus fares are completely irrelevant now. Most of my life I've thought that malaise amongst the oppressed was the stable state. But these protests suggest that is either wrong, or something has shifted the vocabulary of the dynamics from equilibrium to attractors. At least for a certain class of countries [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_sandpile_model#Self-organized_criticality http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abelian_sandpile_model#Self-org...] It remains to be seen if this has done anything to dampen the strong dystopian possibility of cross-national oligarchs whose members are large bureaucracies and whose mission is the status quo. And it is worth paying attention to these countries where broad abuses are not merely potential. Because if it is not possible to regain their rights, then it is all the more important to not ignore the currently well intended overreach of Lawful Good Paladins.